POWER COST HIKE? CUC hedge to expire in 150 days
The Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC), while moving to clear confusion about electricity costs, has indicated that prices could rise again in March 2012. A price cap, which currently limits the cost of fuel, will expire in March next year, exposing…
Ramoons help afterschool program
“It Takes a Village Community Enrichment Programme” is the title of a new collaboration between the Ministry of Education and several community-based organisations which have teamed up to organise fun and education activities for kids. Recently, around 30 volunteers from…
MORE FUEL SHOCKS
Confusion reigned yesterday as Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) on Friday morning released a statement suggesting government was far more to blame for the cost of electricity than the Sparky’s Drive supplier. In response to Premier McKeeva Bush’s Tuesday-night call for…
Girls set off for World Cup adventure
The Cayman Islands Women’s U-20 Football Team are gearing up for World Cup qualifiers this week. The team left on Thursday for Miami for warm up games with Bahamas and Coral Springs. Then they will fly to Trinidad and Tobago…
Get ready 4(G) Usain!
He’s the fastest man in the world… and now Usain Bolt could soon be sprinting to Cayman to help Digicel. The telecommunications giant are in talks with the Jamaican athlete to get him to visit as part of their 4G…
GIRLS CRIME RISE: Youth problems mounting says Minister Adam
Police are arresting more and more young women for violent crime while almost half of the island’s youth are unemployed, according to Community Affairs Minister Mike Adam. Similarly, he said, “There has been a shift in attitudes towards drug use,…
ELECTRIC SHOCKER: Bush calls for major CUC audit
Premier McKeeva Bush will ask an overseas auditor to examine the books at Caribbean Utilities Company, seeking to determine why monthly electricity bills are so high. He proposed bringing to Cayman “a company out of the US or out of…
Governor launches Poppy Appeal
Governor Duncan Taylor joined members of the Cayman Islands Veterans Association to launch their official Poppy Appeal. His Excellency was also on hand to open their brand new headquarters on the ground floor of the Crighton Building on Crewe Road….
World Hospice day Concert
Beautiful voices for hospices A wave of simultaneous concerts around the globe which took place on World Hospice and Palliative Care Day last Saturday October 8th included a concert here, on Grand Cayman. And what a concert it was. A…
MAC SUES HURLEY’S: Bush takes action over media slurs
Saying, “enough is enough”, Premier McKeeva Bush has filed suit in the Grand Court charging Hurley’s Entertainment, its owner Randy Merren and former MLA Daphne Orrett, with defamation in May this year. At the same time, Mr Bush last Monday…
